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Manual and automated testing
Exploratory testing, session-based test management, context-driven testing
Mingle, Perforce, Teamtrack, Confluence
Eclipse, Toad, SQLDeveloper, NetBeans
Mac OS X, Windows, UNIX, Linux, Solaris
SmartSockets, FIX, Appia, Q, kdb, Control-M, distributed and middleware applications
ASP.NET, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL
Designed and implemented performance test plans for a variety of internal and external web applications
Designed and implemented performance test plan for a real-time and historical market data store
Acted as QA lead for three major projects (tick database, market data conversion, and back-end upgrade for Asian trading)
Created and nurtured Exploratory Testing interest group at Liquidnet
Managed a full production-replica staging environment for company-wide and department-wide exploratory tests
Implemented and maintained hundreds of automated functional tests for desktop applications and back-end systems
Served on a small enterprise-wide Technology Center of Excellence for process and personnel improvement; set weekly agenda and report discussions to the CIO in weekly meetings and communicated with the full technology community
Rolled out global technology wiki for all Liquidnet technology staff
Introduced weekly "brain dump" meetings for information sharing within System Group
Tested a variety of systems across many functional areas using manual, exploratory, and automated techniques
Contributed numerous ideas to Liquidnet's internal Innovation Forum
Workflows of the Buy-Side Trader (Financial Technologies Forum)
Star East 2008 (tutorials: session based test management, testing under the hood)
Rapid Software Testing (James Bach)
Presenting Data and Information (Edward Tufte)
Performance Load, and Stress Testing (Dale L. Perry of SQE)
Software Test and Performance Conference (STPCon) 2006
Liquidnet University (various leadership, negotiation, and productivity courses)
Books: Thinking Like a Computer Scientist in Python, The Web Test Companion, Software Project Survival Guide, Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering, Lessons Learned in Software Testing, Getting things Done, Good to Great, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
System Test Analyst in Quality Assurance (Liquidnet, New York, NY) [2004-2008]
Quality Assurance Tester (Framework, Tarrytown, NY) [2003-2004]
Software Developer - Summers (BCGI, Westbrook, ME) [1999-2003]
Helpdesk Consultant & Team Lead - Academic Year (University of Rochester) [1998-2003]
Bachelor of Arts cum laude [1998-2002]
Major in Philosophy with high distinction
Major in Music with distinction
Coursework in Computer Science: programming (Java), data structures, discrete mathematics, honors calculus
Additional coursework in political science, Latin, and French